Well, now we know what he’s been up to. Sort of. Maybe. But not really.

Last night Glover posted a link on Twitter to an incredibly weird and vague trailer/teaser/something for a project called clapping for all the wrong reasons. He provided no additional explanation or context. The clip features Glover (who is going by Childish Gambino pretty much full-time now) doing things like dribbling a basketball, sitting naked in a shower, and scuba diving in a pool. It also features Danielle Fishel (Topanga from Boy Meets World) for like one second, which, seeing as it’s an almost subliminal appearance in a mysterious project with confusing imagery, should do nothing to quiet all the lunatic Illuminati theories about her.

I don’t know. The clip is below. It’s strange. Why can’t people just chill out and make cool heist movies set in Monaco? That’s the real question here.

I tend to agree. Which is really sad if true, because he’s also moving away from humor in his raps, which would suggest he “wants to be taken seriously,” and acting ALL SERIOUS ALL THE TIME is the single worst way for people to take you seriously.

Part of me wants to think that there’s nothing more to this video and it isn’t a trailer for anything, because I like the idea of Donald Glover having a film crew filming weird three scenes for absolutely no reason.

With that being said, if this is a movie/tv show trailer, looks cool, if it as anything to do with his music career, DOOOOOOOONNNNN’T CAAAAAARE.

I’ll take a guess. This is going to be one of those longform music videos. Like the 20 minute cuts of Thriller or Bad. There will be a story for about 10-12 minutes, then the song and then there’ll be a story coda.